What's Going on With the 'Dirty Rotten Church Kids' Podcast? Inside the Scandal
By Chris BarillaApr. 18 2022, Published 5:24 p.m. ET
Hosted by means of former pastors Josh Link and Adrian Gibbs, the Dirty Rotten Church Kids podcast — that includes two "millennial dads figuring out life, art, and culture on the other side of the evangelical bubble," in keeping with its Apple Podcasts description — is meant to assist others unpack and procedure significant religious trauma.
But it looks as if there is also some hassle happening in the back of the scenes. Here's what we all know.
A scandal has emerged involving 'Dirty Rotten Church Kids' host Josh Link.
According to a couple troubling feedback on a recent Instagram post at the podcast's account, it sounds as if as although co-host Josh Link has been accused of engaging in some unethical habits with two ladies who aren't his spouse.
User @angrychurchkid, whose title Karissa in line with her Instagram web page, wrote a couple of scalding messages in the feedback segment about Josh's alleged movements.
Karissa led off by means of making sure to note that the podcast's other host, Adrian, was once now not at fault. "We’ve all given permission for him to post what he has," she wrote, most likely regarding Adrian's own Instagram post about the topic (which we're going to get to later). "Because this is Adrian’s platform, he gets to decide what to do and post and he’s been put in an extremely difficult position of handling the fallout Josh’s actions caused."
Karissa then explained: "In a nutshell, Josh pursued me and Ama (@_this_is_ama ) for most of last year on varying levels of intimacy. We didn’t know the depths of how not-ethical he was being. So many lies and exploiting Ama and my personal traumas and insecurities to feed his ego."
She persevered: "[Ama] and I decided it was important to start going public to protect other women just in case because he’d used this community as a way to make his way in and gain our trust."
She also famous that although Josh is married, she wants his spouse disregarded of it all: "ANY AND ALL communication or comments will leave his wife out of this. She is being cared for and supported and her privacy and safety and being left tf alone is the most important thing to me and Ama. Cool?"
In a 2d comment on the similar submit, Karissa once once more shouted out Adrian, calling him "supportive and lovely and solid this whole period of this coming out, despite this bringing him immense amounts of pain and confusion as well" earlier than noting that she still considers him "a strong friend and a safe advocate."
Addressing lovers who are hurt by means of the truth that Josh, who championed preventing back in opposition to non-public trauma, was once allegedly inflicting it, Karissa mentioned that his movements shouldn't invalidate all that individuals have discovered from the display.
"I know as a former Christian it’s easy to slip back into black and white thinking, good/bad, helpful/unhelpful but what you experienced listening or engaging in their content was real and valid and you deserve to hold onto any healing that you got from them," she wrote.
Josh hasn't spoken out concerning the allegations as of the time of writing, but Adrian wrote in his personal post in regards to the situation that Josh engaged in a "breach of trust and harmful behavior," and famous that he is "having conversations with Josh and all parties involved."
He also discussed that the situation would be developing over the coming weeks and that he "will not be posting any content in the meantime." Adrian promised to keep enthusiasts up to date on inner selections regarding the podcast's long term as they are made. No different explicit details about exactly what Josh allegedly did were shared.
In a word at the similar publish that Karissa wrote under, Ama shared her beef up for Adrian. "Everyone please. @angrychurchkid and I approved the post Adrian shared today. These conversations are happening. Nothing is being covered up. I am working on a post to share my story, but I would like to ask for patience so Karissa and I can the time we need. And please give Adrian the time and space to navigate this, as I can assure you he is in ways that are respectful and consent-based for Karissa and I."
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